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' Feather Renovator.

Patented April 21, 1868.

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N PETERS. PHOTO-UTHOGRAPMEK WASHINGTON. D C,

SAMUEL W. BEV'ANS, OF PLYMOUTH, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE A.' MUNSQN, OF SAME PLACE. I

Letters Patent No. 76,982, dated April 21, 1868.

I IMPROVED FEATHER-DRESSING MACHINE.

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TOIALLWHOM IT MAY CONGERRQ I Be it known that LSAMUEL W. BEVANS, of: Plymouth, county of Litchfield; and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feather-Dressing Machines; and to enable others skilled to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe, by referring to the d'rawings, in which the same letters indicat-c like parts in each of the figures. I I

The nature of this invention will he understood fromthe specification and drawings.

Figure 1 is a sectional side view. I I

Figure 2 is a section end view, cut through the-centre of the cylinder.

a is the body of the cylinder, formed round or octagon shape, as may be desirable.

a are thetheads of the cylinder.

a is a door or orifice through which the material or feathers are introduced into the machine.

b is a, hollow shaft, which extends througlrthe cylinder, and is secured to the heads thereof by means of flanges, and extends through said heads or'fianges, so as to form-hearings, to support and at the same time allow the cylinder to rotate thereon. This shaft 6 isproviderl with valves or cl, corresponding with the orifices d in the shaft 6.

This inner shaft is fitted closely into the main or outer shaftb, e is a central shaft or spindle,

secured inside of the shaft 0 by brackets or end, which extends outward, through the' packing-boxes or other mode of closing the outer ends of theshafts, which, with the mode of introducing steam into the shaft, is designed -to be effected in the usual way.

The body of the shaft is bilged, and has a central disehargeorifice and tube, to conduct'the fluid or exhaust steam from the cylinder, so as to secure a perfectly dry atmosphere, and thereby aid to more perfectly clean the material or feathers, and to greatly facility the operation of cleansing. I Having thus shown the nature, construction, and advantage of this invention, I'will state what I claim. What 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I I In a. feather-dressing machine, attaching a discharge-tube in or near the centre of the bilge or cylinder,

substantially as and for the purpose'described.

SAMUEL W. BEVANS. [L. s.] Witnesses:

N. 0. WILDER, JEREMY W. Buss.

an inner hollow tube, 1;, having orifices,

cross-harm by means of'n'hich the valves or inner shaft may-be turned, to open orclose the ports 1, by applying a keyror wrench to the outer 

